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Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy (Mit Press),Used
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This fun, braintwisting book . . . will make you think as it explores more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences (Sean Carroll, New York Timesbestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden)Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magicians purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesnt require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind, Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of conceptsand how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction.The journey begins with a most ingenious paradox from Gilbert and Sullivans Pirates of Penzance. Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cuttingedge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform supertasks; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum worldand much more.
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